Miriam W. Zuber

MACON—Mrs. Miriam Weeks Zuber, 84, passed away Sunday, August 28, 2011 at a local nursing care facility. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Wednesday, August 31 at Snow’s Memorial Chapel, Cherry Street with burial in Riverside Cemetery, North Gate. The Rev. Malcolm Davis will officiate. Flowers will be accepted or donations may be made to the Lions Club Cottage or the Mason Zuber Lodge at the Georgia Industrial Home.

Mrs. Zuber was born in Ideal, Georgia on May 12, 1927 to Lizzie Ree Dillard and James Roe Weeks, both deceased. She moved to Macon when she was fourteen years old and graduated from A.L. Miller High School. She was the best athlete of her senior year. After twenty years of working with the General Electric Company, she returned to school, graduating from Macon Junior College with honors and from Mercer University, both with degrees of business. She also attended the University of Georgia School of Accounting in order to sit for the CPA exam.

Miriam was a Certified Public Accountant. She retired from the state of Georgia as a senior accountant in the year 2000. She loved water sports, especially skiing, sailing and fishing. Her husband’s best friend, J. Wallace Aggely, taught her to sail. Mr. Aggely raced a lightning sailboat out of the Savannah Yacht Club where he served as Commodore. She was an avid knitter and knitted thirty-five pair of socks for her husband when he could no longer put on a pair of bought socks. She enjoyed playing the guitar and loved country music, going to Nashville, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri at every opportunity. She made her first trip to Nashville when she was seventeen years old.

She had been a member of the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, The Association of Government Accountants and the Georgia Fiscal Management Council. When she was younger she had been a Girl Scout Leader. She was a member on the committee operating the Volunteer Harley Bowers Golf Tournament and American Cancer Society. Miriam was a cancer survivor. She attended her mother’s church, Ramah Primitive Baptist Church in Buena Vista, Georgia.

Her only claim to fame was racing against Ted Turner at the Oconee Yacht Club.

She traveled extensively in the British Isles and in Europe and spent two summers studying in Graz, Austria at the University of Graz.

She also traveled to Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Thailand.

Her husband of fifty-five years, John Mason Zuber, preceded her in death on February 17, 2007. She was also preceded in death by her brother, James F. Weeks in 2004.

Mrs. Zuber is survived by one brother, Rex Allen Weeks of Macon; sister-in-law, Ruth B. Weeks of Macon; a nephew, James Richard (Debbie) Weeks of Byron; and a godchild, Alice Little Downs of Maryland.

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Snow’s Memorial Chapel Funeral and Cremation Services, Cherry Street has charge of arrangements.